​After the Paris agreement had been adopted, I was hoping 2016 be more optimistic regarding Climate Change. However, this has started in the wrong way so far. One of the few positive things was Leonardo Dicaprio’s acceptance speech, last Sunday during the Oscars.

​ I started this academic year participating in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting. I was extremely surprised that still there are scientists who believe that Climate Change is due to natural causes. It was a small portion, but then I could understand why the public perception of climate change is still debatable. Last month, I participated in the American Association for the Advancement in Science (AAAS) Meeting, in which I took a Science Communication Workshop. Typically, I feel confident explaining my research and Climate Change topics to the general audience. However, during the workshop, I realized that I still need to decrease my explanation level and try to personalize it, depending the audience interest and without compromise people’s intelligence.

​​One of the conclusions is that teachers are not getting enough training in climate sciences, so the authors from the study suggest a continuing education. As one of the co-authors says “The Science is moving forward in ways that the education system has not caught them up with.” Also, the study states that some teachers are being influenced by the politicization of the subject outside of school, especially their political affiliation. Most of the leading Republican Presidential candidates have questioned the human role in global warming. (Today being the Super Tuesday and living in Texas, this is even more frustrated and painful.) The data from the study suggest, “…for political or cultural conservatives, simply offering teachers more traditional science education may not lead to better classroom practice.” The study also recommends helping teachers navigate the controversy surrounding the climate change issues.

​In summary, I am trying show you why we need to promote climate change literacy, the main purpose of this program in which I was honored to participate. As the American Chemical Society (ACS) stated in their Climate Change Position Statement: Climate change education for the public is essential to inform rational personal choices, either formal or informal way. Nevertheless, we need Science Communication to empower our future leaders.

we can fight climate change, pollution,poverty etc by introducing rooftop plantation all over the world.Roof top plantation should be in govt buildings ,buses,taxi and other vehicles having roof.This will help us to create a fresh, pollution free environment especially in cites all over the world.Laws can be implemented to make rooftop plantation mandatory for each and every building in cities.Birds,butterflies and various insects have become perish in cities.Rooftop plantation will bring back the beautiful birds,bees,butterflies etc which are no longer seen in polluted cities of the world.
we can reverse the process of global warming by reforestation of deserts.This will help us to eradicate poverty ,pollution,global warming and climate change.This is very much essential for survival living beings in this planet.
The afforestation of deserts had already been started in some parts of the world like Gobi desert in China ,desert in Israel etc.In India It can be started in Rajasthan. Desert greening is the process of man-made reclamation of deserts for ecological reasons (biodiversity), farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other Life support systems.Plantation in deserts will result in equal distribution of rainfall all over the world and when the dry deserts will be turned into forest ,it will serve itself as the habitat of a large number of species.
Reversing the process of global warming by reforestation of deserts will require a huge fund. The world bank , United Nations and the billionaires of the world can come together to reverse the climate change .﻿